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  1. Re: Toilet paper and timber? on Earth Home To 3 Trillion Trees, Half As Many As When Human Civilization Arose · · Score: 1

    Some softwood intended for pulp can be harvested in 10-12 years. 12-18" trunk size is easily processed. Long is better than wide.

  2. Re: Toilet paper and timber? on Earth Home To 3 Trillion Trees, Half As Many As When Human Civilization Arose · · Score: 1

    Forest farming is measured in decades. The Tree Farm system in America started is 1941, despite opposition from the federal government...

    It's likely that even the oldest Tree Farm has only been through 5-7 cycles. And while a 'Tree Farm' might sound like it's a first is nice, polite trees lined up in rows, truly it is mostly trees well organized but still growing through the underbrush, grass, and other litter...

  3. Re: Toilet paper and timber? on Earth Home To 3 Trillion Trees, Half As Many As When Human Civilization Arose · · Score: 1

    Yes trees are a renewable resource.

    You can plant more from seedlings, or preserve some old growth mother trees in the case of northern white pine, seeding naturally, and you will replenish the forest.

    What does renewable actually mean to you?

  4. Re: Toilet paper and timber? on Earth Home To 3 Trillion Trees, Half As Many As When Human Civilization Arose · · Score: 2

    Straight thin trees are similar to harvest mechanically. Monocultured trees mature more predictably and concurrently, and so simplify harvesting. Replanted cuts have been the norm for decades, primarily by the paper industry, but in very limited circumstances for lumber operations.

    I'm not surprised that trees are more plentiful now than in the past, not that many will find every possible reason why that is actually bad. Pathetic.

  5. Re: Simple solution on More Cities Use DNA To Catch Dog Owners Who Don't Pick Up Waste · · Score: 1

    "There's not much people won't do for a paycheque."

    So you also reject the theory that immigrants to the US are necessary to do the jobs citizens will not...

    Or they will if it gets them out of their cell or on TV.

  6. Re:Crap. on Happy Birthday, Linux! An OS At 24 · · Score: 1

    "basic data safety is not guaranteed"

    Huh? You want a ricochet biscuit to go with that?

  7. Re: Same story, different book. on Mostly Theater? Taking Aim At White House 'We the People' Petitions · · Score: 1

    Off-topic? Our President uses these meaningless petitions as propaganda. Look.

  8. Re:#neverforget on Windows 95 Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    Wasn't that OS/2 v5?

    (:

  9. Re:Not in a long time... on Windows 95 Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    There as a USB implementation for Windows 95, I think it was only in an OEM version known as OEM SR 2.1 and after.

    This was intended to address manufacturers need for the USB support, and was not supposed to be added to prior releases.

    If you recall, USB host controllers were both flaky and numerous at the beginning, and hardware support in Windows 95 was difficult enough without having to deal with that mess. Microsoft let the dust settle a little bit before plunging in.

    OEM drivers were mostly pus back then.

    Mind you, if you wanted USB support and had a retail 95 version, the solution was to go to 98SE.

    there were lots of other issues around Win 98 OSR2 and following versions, enough to drive you to 98 if your hardware was supported well. Ah, those days.

  10. Re:I was at the launch party on Windows 95 Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    Hey, the NT kernel has changed some, but it's in Windows 10. One of Microsoft's better things.

  11. Best OS evah on Windows 95 Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    I installed the Windows 95 Upgrade on top of W4W3.11. Ran for 28 days without rebooting, in an era (28.8k modem, PPP connection, AOL over IP, Trumpet Winsock, Mozilla) where I rebooted 3-4 times an evening (once an hour) to restore my connection.

    Then I got some patch from Windows Update. No such uptime ever again until Windows 8. But damn, 95 was the shizzle, compared to all else before it.

  12. Same story, different book. on Mostly Theater? Taking Aim At White House 'We the People' Petitions · · Score: 4, Informative

    "lack identity and location verification, and appear to have other data quality issues. One attempting to explore the petition data for the 67,022-and-counting signers of a new petition urging a quick response to a court decision that could cut the time international STEM students can work in the U.S. on student visas after graduation, for example, would be stymied by thousands of missing and non-U.S. postal codes."

    Gee, sounds like Obama's campaign finance reports.

    Before you mod this down, do sooner of your own reading on this. If you dare.

  13. Re:To Fight Car Theft on San Jose May Put License Plate Scanners On Garbage Trucks · · Score: 1

    "No, I'm an idiot who can't read what the parent wrote."

    No, I'm an idiot that doesn't recognize clarity.

    There, FTFY.

  14. Re: Good from a libertarian view? on Finland Considers Minimum Income To Reform Welfare System · · Score: 1

    0. You missed my point. If that work isn't worth the money, go get your capital elsewhere. You're complaining that it took effort to capitalize your enterprise?

  15. Re: all voting should be paper and pencil on Virginia Ditches 'America's Worst Voting Machines' · · Score: 1

    Where I've voted before, they don't count before I leave.

  16. Re:A country sized face palm event. on Finland Considers Minimum Income To Reform Welfare System · · Score: 1
  17. Re:it makes a rational assumption. on Finland Considers Minimum Income To Reform Welfare System · · Score: 1

    Speak not for me, sir. I am an american, and I do not agree with your assertion that 'we assume people are poor because they are lazy'.

  18. Re:Good from a libertarian view? on Finland Considers Minimum Income To Reform Welfare System · · Score: 1

    0. think of your time spent applying and documenting as your 'startup costs'. Since you didn't have the money, that seems pretty damned reasonable to me. But if it's too onerous, you could always not do it. The market at work.

    1. If you did away with the company benefits, such as R&D, capitalization grants, etc., I would, as a taxpayer, expect my taxes to be reduced. Taking the unspent tax revenue and tossing it at individuals as a 'share' misstates the purpose of taxation at the US federal level, which should be to operate government. Not sharing others' wealth with those the government designates as recipients.

    Has our nation bought into the concept of government as arbiter of all? If so, we need to either reverse this or stage an overthrow to overthrow the overthrow...

    Four boxes.

  19. Re: They just don't want to get sued on US No-Fly List Uses 'Predictive Judgement' Instead of Hard Evidence · · Score: 1

    One since 1998. One. Since 1998.

    One is too many. One, even one, is the wrong response to any issue, even abortion.

    But one? This is your equivalence?

    Inadequate.

  20. Re: They just don't want to get sued on US No-Fly List Uses 'Predictive Judgement' Instead of Hard Evidence · · Score: 1

    First things first, I don't consider Muslims non-white.

    Second, did we actually institute the TSA in response to white supremacist terrorism? Really?

  21. Re: A mini ice age? Really? on New Tool Allows Scientists To Annotate Media Coverage of Climate Change · · Score: 1

    This is why no one trusts the media. They will actually let 'experts' rewrite their stories, without explanation.

    One sure way to prove the dissenters wrong - silence them. At the source.

    Bastards.

  22. Re: They just don't want to get sued on US No-Fly List Uses 'Predictive Judgement' Instead of Hard Evidence · · Score: 1

    Actually, when he was apprehended, he had an envelope with two pages from the book. The pages describing how to bomb the FBI offices in Washington. Not the whole book, though he probably read it.

    Me, the staunch conservative I am, have never read it. Not interested. Antisemitism never appealed to me at all, ever.

  23. Re: They just don't want to get sued on US No-Fly List Uses 'Predictive Judgement' Instead of Hard Evidence · · Score: 0

    Considering that, so far as I can tell, all attacks carried out by Muslims are claimed to be motivated by Islam, I think it's entirely relevant. But you're only trying to confuse the issue.

  24. Re: They just don't want to get sued on US No-Fly List Uses 'Predictive Judgement' Instead of Hard Evidence · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I don't recall the religious connection... From the Wikipedia,

    'In McVeigh's biography American Terrorist, released in 2002, he stated that he did not believe in a hell and that science is his religion.[94][95] In June 2001, a day before the execution, McVeigh wrote a letter to the Buffalo News identifying himself as agnostic.'

    And I'm still not getting the religious connection...

  25. Re: all voting should be paper and pencil on Virginia Ditches 'America's Worst Voting Machines' · · Score: 1

    to verify my vote was registered and counted.